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First, design your performance so that the audience knows that the deck is normal by showing instead of telling. Second, design your performance so that there are no suspicious moves or anything where a spectator gets a sense that you did "something." Third, maintain control of your...

Gimmicks don't get reactions. Magicians get reactions. That is, the reaction depends on your performance. I can see each of those effects being amazing in the hands of a good magician. The question is which effect can you visualize performing well and enjoying performing. It is sort of like...

If you buy a package of loops, you will go through most of them in the first day. Other than that, my advice is which effect do you want to perform most? Buy what makes you the most happy. That is my personal preference. I think it is easier to learn from a real book. There are some...

The best way to start is to get Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic. You could do an hour show with the material in that book. Just reading the book and thinking about how and why the effects explained work will do more to advance you magic than watching 100 hours of videos on YouTube. It...

You only need to watch until around 2:30.

Exactly. Often you view of what works best will change over time and change depending on where you are performing.

iPhone autocorrect. o_O

My recommendations: 1. Stop learning from TouTube. You will thank me later. 2. Get Royal Road to Card Magic in a physical book form. 3. Get Mark Wildon's Complete Course in a physical book form. 4. Don't get Expert at the Card Table. It is not a good book to start with.

The method you use depends on what you want to accomplish. What comes before it, what comes after it, what your style of handling the prop is, what appears most natural, what is most reliable, what is easiest to do, etc. each option has advantages and trade offs. My suggestion is to do effects...

I get three times as much as what you get paid. No, there is a double super secret place where we do that. To bastardize George Santayana, those who do not study magic history are doomed to reinvent it. Marlo really only conceded independent creation by stating "I was informed that Dai...

There is nothing original about Blaine's ambitious card routine. It is merely a series of controls, DLs, tilt/depth illusion and the Braue Pop Up Move. The two card monte is Eddie Fechter's "Be Honest What is It". It was originally Published in Magician Nitely in 1974 and you can find it in...

Actually, the worry stone routine is derived from Eugene's Prayer Stones routine.

I second checking out the Fellowship of Christian Magicians: http://www.fcm.org Magic can be used to teach and illustrate religious concepts. One of the effects I do involves using worry stones to talk about prayer. The routine finishes with a quote by the Dutch theologian Soren Kierkegaard...

If your presentation consists of what you are doing, the audience's first thought will be to wonder how you are doing it. Your job is to make the illusion of impossibility more compelling than the reality of a menthol.

The click bend is a result of uneven absorption of humidity. That is, the edges are more or less humid than the rest of the card. Think fortune telling fish. I've had this happen with decks going from winter climates to the Caribbean or going from summer East Coast climates to western high...

My suggestion is to have some fun. Force a card on someone and then try to guess it ("I'm going to name two colors.. red or black... you're thinking red"; "There are two suits, hearts or diamonds.... you're thinking diamonds." etc.). Watch their facial expressions when you name the correct...

Card College is a great way to learn. When you are starting out, there is a point where things just "click." Once you have the "idea" of a sleight down (you understand what to do and are able to do the move but not necessarily smoothly or quickly) , you can move on in the book. As you learn...

There are different phases of learning. We all start out learning tricks one at a time. Then you start to learn methods and applications as part of the tricks. At that point you realize that you are missing the fundamentals. So you go back to basics. Then you move on to some more advanced...

Can you explain the effect? Sometimes people rename classic effects. Also, a lot of Magic Makers stuff is rip offs without credit.

Linking rings. It's all about being connected to people.